Lamb Weston Holdings Inc vs Mercadolibre Inc — how do they compare? Lamb Weston Holdings Inc trades at $46.42 (market cap $6.43B), while Mercadolibre Inc trades at $1,821.41 (market cap $92.90B). The key difference: Mercadolibre Inc is far larger — about 14.4× Lamb Weston Holdings Inc's market cap, and Lamb Weston Holdings Inc pays a 3.26% dividend while Mercadolibre Inc pays none. Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| LW | MELI | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $6.43B | $92.90B |
Sector | Consumer Staples | Consumer Cyclical |
52-Week High | $66.57 | $2.51K |
52-Week Low | $38.48 | $1.55K |
Enterprise Value | $10.40B | $99.79B |
Dividend Yield | 3.26% | — |
Trailing returns across standard periods
Lamb Weston is the world's second-largest producer of branded and private-label frozen potato products, such as French fries, sweet potato fries, tater tots, diced potatoes, mashed potatoes, hash browns, and chips. The company also has a small appetizer business that produces onion rings, mozzarella sticks, and cheese curds. Including joint ventures, 63% of fiscal 2022 revenue was U.S.-based, with the remainder stemming from Europe, Canada, Japan, China, Korea, Mexico, and several other countries. Lamb Weston's customer mix is estimated 58% quick-serve restaurants, 19% full-service restaurants, 8% other food services (hotels, commercial cafeterias, arenas, schools), and 16% retail. Lamb Weston became an independent company in 2016 when it was spun off from Conagra.
Read more on LW →MercadoLibre runs the largest e-commerce marketplace in Latin America, connecting a network of more than 140 million active users and 1 million active sellers as of the end of 2021 across an 18-country footprint. The company also operates a host of complementary businesses, with shipping solutions (Mercado Envios), a payment and financing operation (Mercado Pago), advertisements (Mercado Clics), classifieds, and a turnkey e-commerce solution (Mercado Shops) rounding out its arsenal. MercadoLibre generates revenue from final value fees, advertising royalties, payment processing, insertion fees, subscription fees, and interest income from consumer and small-business lending.
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